36 __A COLLECTING TRIP 
compared with this. The Taj is on the banks of the 
Jumma where wild erccodiles and large river tor- 
toises can be seen at any time; we saw them from the 
terrace of the Taj itself. 
The shooting about here is fine. People leave 
the hotel in the morning and get back for lunch of- 
ten with two or three antelope, a couple of gazelles, 
sand grouse, ete. Our spare hours are spent in hunt- 
ing smaller and to us more interesting game. The 
collection of lhzards and bats grows daily. Almost 
every shrine yields its quota. We are traveling in a 
country of the most accomplished thieves. At Jaipur 
our car was on a siding and we got aboard at nine 
9’clock although the train was not due to leave until 
midnight. We were awakened by a man standing 
between our berths feeling about. Without going in- 
to details I may say he was persuaded to leave the 
car, | am sure a sorer and I imagine a wiser man. 
The photographs we have made so far show that 
we have a very different condition of light to work 
under here from what we have at home. We have 
some very good pictures, however. Well, I must get 
ready for dinner now. 
So, good bye, from your 
Loving son, 
Tom. 
Caleutta, November 16, 1906. 
Dear Mother: 
I wrote you last from Agra. Since then we have 
been to Lucknow, a very interesting place, being one 
of the great strongholds of the English during the 
